PS3 Attitude

Friday, 28 September 2007

MGS 4 website gets a facelift

Seems to be a day for new PS3 websites.

The official Metal Gear Solid 4 website has had a particularly nice facelift, and contains a message from Kojima-san, details on many of the characters in the game and all the trailers - including the recent TGS 07 video.

As an aside, there are some rumours being bandied around the 'net today that Microsoft are preparing a major bid to get MGS and FF XIII on the X360. Whether they're true or just the usual tripe, I'm not sure. We'll keep an eye on things and will update you as soon as we find out.

Your chance to jump on the Folks wagon

As a way of celebrating the release of the EU Folklore demo yesterday (that's if you hadn't already played the Japanese or US version weeks ago) there's a new opportunity for everyone...

Design-a-Folk.

Yes, you can actually have your Folk appear in the game courtesy of a competition being run right now.

Entries will be judged by a panel from Japan’s Game Republic studios that will include Yoshiki Okamoto, a.k.a. Okamoto-San - the iconic Executive Producer of smash hits Resident Evi, Devil May Cry and Genji. The competition will run from September 28th to October 22nd – so get busy designing.

So if you're of an artistic bent head on over to eu.playstation.com and enter your design before 22nd October. I wonder if they'll still make the winner pay for the downloadable package that includes their Folk!

Prototype website launches

Sierra have launched the Prototype website with the usual array of screenshots and videos plus the ubiquitous 'sign up' button.

I'll admit I was quite surprised to see our 'hero' transforms into something not quite of this world. When I saw the original trailer for this title the main character, Alex Mercer, was always 'human'.

Turns out the little fella is a shapeshifter.

Anyhow, if you want to see how the upcoming PS3 title is 'shaping' up (did you see what I did there?) then hop over to the official Prototype website.

Thursday, 27 September 2007

Sony brings the Play-Doh

There's nothing that quite shows off your PS3 like a nice shiny Bravia TV (well, apart from a nice shiny Samsung TV since they're made by the same people)...

Some of you may have marvelled at the brilliant 'Balls' advert and then wowed at the spectacular 'Paint' spot that followed (shot in the UK, I might add), but now Sony have got another trick up their sleeves; bunny rabbits. Lots of them.

Take a look at the teaser for the next major Bravia advertising push, called Play-Doh.

PS3 Home 'Dress'; Project Catwalk, or Project Crapwalk?

Playstation Home is certainly keeping us all waiting with baited breath and the delay in launching the service that was announced at TGS 2007 definitely didn't help the situation.

However, positive news about Home and further details of additional content are still coming along, including the 'girl-centric' announcement that 'Dress' would be making it's way to the Home platform by next year.

Dress is a 'super avatar' service that allows the fashion industry to link up with Home by providing clothes for your character to wear. It's bound to be a 'premium' service that you'll pay for, but that's no bad thing.

Now, further details have become available courtesy of IGN and from a most unlikely source; Takamasa Shichisawa, the Director of Tourist Trophy. Why him? It turns out the basis of Dress comes from the biker loadout system where you could dress your biker in branded goods.

Dress Town is a virtual space where players experience the world of fashion. Sony is working with fashion brands to create digital shops, where players can experience all areas of their favorite brands through clothing, music, videos and interviews. This area of the game is meant to make you feel like you're actually moving around a shop.

Dress Studio lets you create your own fashion, selecting color, material, patterns and logos. It appears that the game will let players make their own brands. Sony is even looking into letting players send their designs away to have them transformed into real life clothing.

Dress museum is a museum of clothing history. It has some interactive elements where you gather famous scenes from movies and famous characters.

Dress park is a community space that's meant for players to communicate and exchange gifts, including clothing. Sony will hold official events and fashion shows here, giving players the chance to appear as models. Players can also organize their own shows based around their original brands.

There's no doubt that this is going to appeal to girls more than guys, and that's no bad thing. It is every console manufacturer's dream to find the 'silver bullet' that unlocks the female marketplace.

But if dress also offers your favourite brand of cargos to go along with the T-shirt you earned whilst playing GT5, who says that guys won't get all creative as well.

Tony Hawk has had his day. I'm sick of pulling crazy 10m point combos by sitting there and flatland tricking until my thumbs bleed, only to find out someone else did it for longer and scored 50m. For those of use that skate, used to skate or dreamt that they could skate, this is the one game that seems to finally capture reality and make it feel believable on a controller.

Being packaged with the seriously next-gen PlayStation Eye, this title promised to bring in old card player fans and win new one's alike. Think of it as a way to get into card battles without actually needing to still be at school, or have any real friends (like me).

Disclaimer: There's a slim chance Guitar Hero III will slip to 1st November over here. In the event of an emergency, replace this title with Jericho, which would have been number four if we'd called this feature PS3 Attitude's Big Four!

New Assassin's Creed trailer

Take a look at this new trailer for Assassin's Creed, delivered to those people who had signed up at the website for information updates.

As you can see, the Knights Templar aren't particularly happy with our 'friend' Altair. It will be interesting to see if the Holy Grail makes an appearance anywhere in the game now that we know the Templars are involved... not long to wait now!

PS3 Jericho demo expected this week

Jericho looks like one of those titles that might just sneak up and take the top spot. The latest gameplay videos I've seen (both from TGS and before) certainly show what looks to be a highly accomplished FPS.

So it is with great joy that Codemasters that confirmed that a Jericho demo should be on one of the PS Stores this week.

Given my little rant about the state of the UK Store (yes, it's the Euro Store - I know - I just happen to be in the UK) I expect it will hit the US Store this week despite the fact that Codemasters is a UK-bred outfit.